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:29:02
I don't understand what you mean.
:29:04
There are two ways of knowing
without consulting a calendar.

:29:08
The leaves on the maple trees
have all gone,

:29:11
and the fact that the President is
not at home on Pennsylvania Avenue.

:29:15
Tell me, sir...
:29:18
Do you really think Van Buren
cares about the whims

:29:21
of an 11-year-old girl
who wears a tiara?

:29:24
I assure you, only one thing occupies
his thoughts this time of the year,

:29:28
being all things to all people,
which means nothing to no one.

:29:33
In other words,
gettin' himself re-elected.

:29:37
Give me a hand.
:29:42
Huh?
:29:46
- Will you help us, sir?
- Let go of my arm.

:29:49
Take my stick.
:29:52
- Mr Adams?
- Yeah, what?

:29:55
As an advocate for the abolition
of slavery, will you help us?

:30:00
I'm neither friend nor foe to the
abolitionist cause. I won't help you.

:30:05
Sir.
:30:06
- What?
- I know you, Mr President.

:30:10
I know you and your presidency as
well as any man, and your father's.

:30:14
You were a child at his side
when he helped invent America.

:30:18
You, in turn, have devoted your life
to refining that noble invention.

:30:22
There remains but one task undone.
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One vital task the Founding
Fathers left to their sons,

:30:28
before their 13 colonies could
precisely be called United States.

:30:32
And that task, sir, as you
well know, is crushing slavery.

:30:37
Your record confirms you're an
abolitionist, sir, even if you won't.

:30:42
- And whether or not you admit it...
- Mr Joadson.

:30:45
..you belong with us.
:30:50
You're quite the scholar,
Mr Joadson, aren't ya?

:30:54
Quite the historian.
:30:59
Let me tell you about
that quality, if I might.


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